While listening to the radio in 1983, I heard our top 40 station, KHTR, play a song I hadn't heard before.
"Hmmm," I thought. "This isn't terrible, but it's not as inspired as most of the band's other hits. The chorus doesn't sound like it would stand up to repeated listening, and the song sounds like it didn't take long to write."
I was right. The song was only a minor hit, and I don't think the station played it for more than two weeks. Even back then, I had a program director's ear, complete with insight that might have been unusual for a 12-year-old.
